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Explores the role visual images and technologies have played in shaping modern understandings of race. This book traces the subtle shifts that occurred in European and South American depictions of Andean Indians from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and explains how these shifts led to the modern concept of racial difference.

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One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997

Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsCh. 1Introduction3Ch. 2The Inca Operatic25Ch. 3An Economy of Vision58Ch. 4A One-Eyed Gaze85Ch. 5Equivalent Images107Ch. 6The Face of a Nation142Ch. 7The New Indians168Ch. 8Negotiating Modernity198Notes217References239Index253

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/06/1997
      ISBN13: 9780691006451, 978-0691006451
      ISBN10: 0691006458

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores the role visual images and technologies have played in shaping modern understandings of race. This book traces the subtle shifts that occurred in European and South American depictions of Andean Indians from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and explains how these shifts led to the modern concept of racial difference.

      Trade Review
      One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997

      Table of Contents
      List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsCh. 1Introduction3Ch. 2The Inca Operatic25Ch. 3An Economy of Vision58Ch. 4A One-Eyed Gaze85Ch. 5Equivalent Images107Ch. 6The Face of a Nation142Ch. 7The New Indians168Ch. 8Negotiating Modernity198Notes217References239Index253

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